8 Little Known Tics That Make Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool Awesome

2. He Understands The Complexity Of CGI

In order for Deadpool to still retain some sense of expressiveness despite wearing such a feature-obscuring mask, Reynolds was required to shoot each scene in the movies twice, once while wearing the mask and once while not.

This allowed VFX house Weta Digital to use Reynolds' face as a reference for animating the mouth portion of the suit whenever Deadpool is speaking. However, because the suit by default obscures most natural mouth movement, Reynolds had to perform these reference takes 20-30% "bigger" and more exaggerated than he typically would have.

The result is that Reynolds' more animated facial take could be used as a digital mask for the mouth of the suit, ensuring that the audience always feels like Deadpool's actually saying what he's saying and it doesn't just look phoney and dubbed-over.

Though it's an extremely subtle part of the movie - compared to all the cartoonish bombast, anyway - Deadpool wouldn't seem like an actual human being if we couldn't see those flecks of human emotion underneath the mask.

Many actors struggle to fully grasp the ins and outs of VFX-assisted performance, but clearly Reynolds knew exactly how to play these alternate takes: they're neither overly animated to the extent that they're distracting, nor are they slight enough that the part could basically be played by anybody.

It's probably not something you'll think about while watching either movie, which honestly makes it that much more impressive.